Egypt, Zimbabwe Stock Markets Lead African Markets in 2016 as Lusaka Exchange Top Losers

Culled—Proshare

December 19, 2016/Proshare MarketsThe performance of African Stock markets so far in 2016 has not been very impressive, looking at the current YTD performance, as most indices trade in the red zone.

A quick review of African stock markets performance reflects that the Egyptian EGX 30 Index tops the other African markets with +59.77% YTD gain and closely followed by Zimbabwe Securities Exchange and Casablanca indices with +28.77% and +22.13% gains respectively while the Mauritius SEM10 Index records the least gain of +0.20%.

However, Lusaka All Share Index records the highest loss of -26.06% and closely followed by the Ghana Stock Exchange Index and Uganda Stock markets with -20.59% and -14.14%  losses in that order.

The Nigerian All-Share Index currently records –6.76% YTD performance as at 16th December, 2016.

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